Godot 3.6 Beta 5 does not bake 3D models via merge_meshes about godot HOT 4 OPEN

Ah this could be a regression from MergeGroups. I don't think it looks serious, just a check for CPU source mesh which doesn't make sense with the old method.

I should be able to fix this up soon.

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I've done a PR to fix this, essentially the problem was just the new method defaults to creating meshes on CPU only and the MeshInstance::merge_meshes() should create GPU meshes for use in the editor and rendering.

There is one additional change to be aware of here since 3.5:

• Mesh merging is now visibility aware, so if hidden meshes are merged, they will be merged to a hidden result.
• This means that in your script you either need to hide the source meshes after merging, or unhide the result mesh after merging.

Also as the merging backend has changed it may be more stringent for requirements for merging (it checks hopefully absolutely everything, so if e.g. a margin is different, then it will not merge).

I'm hoping to add a verbose mode for merging that will print out reasons for not merging (as this could be annoying to work out manually) but this may have to wait till a point release as we are in feature freeze.

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Thank you very much! If you need testing it, let me know, I will help!

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Thank you very much! If you need testing it, let me know, I will help!

Hopefully a lot of the jobs you previously did with MeshInstance::merge_meshes() can now be automated better with MergeGroup, as it essentially does what you were doing in your script, either at runtime or baked in the editor.

Any testing you can give would be greatly appreciated! 😀

https://docs.godotengine.org/en/3.6/tutorials/3d/merge_groups.html

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